Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1936 — Page 1

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Fair tonight, probably becoming unsettled tomorrow.

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YOUTHS FROM HAMILTON WIN

STOCK JUDGING

Get $1500 for Expenses and Trip to International Show at Chicago.

OHIO TEAM IS VICTOR

Piqua Draft Horses Pull 3580-Pound Load to Take Championship.

BY Hamilton County for. livestock and Greenville, O, captured the title in draft horse puiling contests during the day's outstanding competitions at the Indiana State Fair's “Farmers’ Day.” Three youths from hamilton—ihe county adjoining Marion—Robert Stehman, Robert Miller, and Don Stehman—were adjudged the champion junior livestock arbiters

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out of. 67 teams. This championship team | is to represent Indiana at the junior

in December at the International - Livestock Exposition i» Chicago. They received $1500 from . the State- Fair Board for expenses and a $200 trophy from the Pipe apolis Railway ‘and Stockyards

Score 1879 Points

The Hamilton youths scored 1879 points out of a possible 2250. ~ Scholarships to Purdue University were awarded to Phillip Lash, Mentone, and Robert Stehman, of the winning team, for high scoring in the individual event. Nine other youths were given trips to the Chicago Livestock Exposition. They are: Phillip Geyer, Lakeville; Devoe - Baker, Huntington; | Allen Shafer, Royal Center; Morgan Miers, Greensburg: James Douglas, Flat Rock: Lex Orem, Russiaville} Isiah Duckworth, Mount Vernon; Henry .Henze, Evansville, and Leo Liesing, . Oldenburg. * Two thousand youths took part in the preliminary contests in counties in the‘state. " The favorite went down to detent in the pulling event for heavyweight draft horses this noon when the Statler Farms, Piqua, O., with their champion team could not budge a 3400 pound load more than a few feet. The Statler team was ousted from its championship by two other teams that pulled 3580 pounds with the winner turning up in the Jeffries and Flatter team, Greenville, 0.

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inches. The Ohio team, weighing - 4400 pounds, and known as Jerry and

Dick, have traveled 3500 miles in the last few months pulling against the best in the nation. _ . Two coal company horses, vanned “in this morning, took second place in the pulling contest when a team owned by Willard Rhoades, Springfield, Ill. and 5 inches. is equivalent to a 23-ton pull on pavement. Although attendance showed a drop from yesterday's all-high fair record 110.431, it was forecast that today would be the fourth consecutive fair day to break day-by-day records. It was estimated that a crowd of 30,000 would pay into the grounds. Up to today the fair was 46,000 paid admissions over 1935, the high of previous fairs. Riding along with this peak at(Turn to Page Three)

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Drunk ‘Plays’ Parking Meter but It Fails to Pay Off.

By United Press ALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 8.—A patrolman today told of finding a man clinging unsteadily

to a parking meter with one hand and inserting nickels in the device with the other. “The thing's crooked,” complained the man, “I've put in $5.75 and it hasn’t paid off once,”

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By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 8.-—The children of Union Ridge school district in Norwood Township didn’t start to school as others did today. _ They romped while their parents argued—about a “kiss feud.” The issue was: Principal Charles O’Hearn, a bachelor, attempt to kiss or hug the three teachers of his school. Mr. O’Hearn said “no.” The teachers said “yes.” Tde school board fired the teachers and the county superintenden{ fired the principal. Mothers of the little community said there would be no more school until Mr. O’Hearn was rehired, : "

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Times Special OCKPORT, Ind., Sept. 8.—Because every one in history but Daniel Boone bored them, and they shuddered at the thought of spelling and arithmetic, three boys who should have been in school today were believed to be somewhere in the Kentucky hills: The three, Jackie’ Brown, 11, son of Mrs. Georgia Brown; James Howard Lashbrook, 12, who lives with his grandmother, Mrs. Kate Lashbrook, and Jackie Roe, 12, who lives with his sister, Mrs. John Jackson, apparently expected an ambush by unfriendly Indians. They took $8 and a' .22-caliber rifle along just in case. The trio hired another boy to row them across the Ohio River to Kentucky in a skiff. They said they planned to spend the winter in the hills and eat “bar meat.”

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. Sept. 8.4 Roy H. Wolfe, St. Joseph County sheriff, was confronted with a unique request yesterday when he was petitioned by Chester Lincoln and Antoinette Madison, both. of Detroit, for privilege to be married behind jail bars. Sheriff Wolfe complied with the

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MRS. F. C. DICKSON TAKEN TO HOSPITAL

Wife of Bank Head Stricken by Heart Disease.

. Mrs. Fred C. Dickson, wife of the president of the Indiana Trust Co,

collapsed at 3818 N. Illinois-st today from heart disease. ‘She was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital by police and her condition was reported “satisfactory.” The Diekson home is at R. R. 2, Carmel, Ind-

CLEAR SHES TODAY PROMISED FOR FAIR

Unsettled, Cooler Weather Is Due Tomorrow.

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HOLIDAY TOLL 300 IN NATION 18 IN INDIANA

20 Drownings Over U. S. Reported From Lake, Beach Resorts.

AIRPLANES KILL DOZEN

Accidents Account ‘for 182 Lives as U. S. Celebrates.

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{At least 300 men, women and children paid with their lives for celebration of Labor Day, it appeared today. ‘The death toll of the three-day hdliday week-end, last of the summer, mounted to 239 in 30 states early today, according to a United Press survey. Accidents in the early morning hours and reports of tragedies in secluded districts were expected to swell the toll well past 300. Eighteen of the holiday fatalities were in Indiana. Twenty of the thousands who crowded beaches and lake resorts drowned. At least a dozen died in airplane crashes. Murder, fire and carelessness added their toll The greatest destruction—182 lives —Tfollowed the ‘hundreds of thou-

| sands of motorists lured to the high-

ways by fair weather to visit other cities, celebrate at suburban resorts, or, lounge at summer cottages and pi¢nic grounds. Accidents in Indiana Terry Ahrens, 10, son of Mr. and Mps. W. O. Ahrens, Fort Wayne, and Walter G. Willson, 37, drowned in a gravel pit. The two sank after the bay became frightened and grabbed Willson around the neck. Gene: Ackerman, 14, was wounded fatally while hunting with his father, Lloyd Ackerman, and a neighbor boy near Washington. The youth's gun discharged accidentally when he lowered it to the ground. Robert Bullard, 59, Waldron, was injured fatally when two section cars collided near St. Paul. Injuries suffered in an automo-

_bile-truck collision near Lafayette

} (Turn to Page Three) } * . ° Driving Hints % BY NAT'L SAFETY COUNCIL

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TURNING

ARE is the driver who knows, except in a general way, the turning radius of his car. Many accidents are caused because of this lack of knowledge. , ‘The lesson is really one of the simplest among the many that a good driver should learn. The easiest and most effective way is to get out sQmewhere in a sufficiently wide ‘space and have some one mark your turning radius witn chalk. = ‘Make the shortest turn possible. Then get out of your car and study the line. You will probably find the curve much wider than you expected, and a study of the chalk. mark will convince you quickly that there are well-defined limits to what you can do with the steering wheel in turning. The ' experience should prove

- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1936

Roosevelt Is Reported Gaining in Middle West; Five States Vote Today

Stokes Says President Has

Recovered Stride in Farm Territory. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—Presi-

dent Roosevelt seems to have regained in the Middle West the stride that was slackened for a time by the emergence of Alf M. Landon as a new political figure. This is a conclusion reached from trailing the President through the large area hit by the drought, from side trips, from talks with Democrats and Republicans, from his reception by voters along the route,

from traveling a week with Gov. Landon in the East, from crossing his path again at Des Moines. The situation psychologically over the last few weeks seems to be as follows: Gov. Landon’s buildup, culminating in his overwhelming nomination, and dramatized by his telegram: to the convention amending the party platform, captured the imagination of hesitant voters and opened the way for him to make inroads into that large group of independents who might be swung either way and might conceivably swing the election. A lot of voters were ready for wooing. But it would take more than a box of candy. Expectantly they waited for some concrete proposal, some showing that the candidate had ideas about how he would manage the nation’s affairs. Some indication that he would quit the company of those who hang around the corner in Wall Street. Gov. Landon had his big opportunity in his opening campaign speech at West Middlesex. There, amid the scenes of his birth, he could have recognized publicly, as he does privately, the changes that have come over the country, and cut himself loose from the old order. Instead, he delivered a speech (Turn to Page Three)

SLAYING IS SOLVED,

AUTHORITIES. SAY,

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Three Held in C in Connection With Beech Grove Case.

With three persons in custody, police today - announced . they had solved the slaying of Harry C. Ploch, Beech Grove liquor store owner, during a holdup March 7. The case was broken Aug. 31, police said, when Cleo Arnold Chelff, 23, of 731 S. Meridian-st, made a statement at the Indiana State Reformatory where he is serving a term for robbery. Overlin Jackson, 22, of Spencer, allegedly confessed participation in the holdup when he was brought to Indianapolis early today, police said. Another suspect, Charles Polley, 26, of Spencer, escaped last night through the washroom window of the Spencer filling station where he is employed, police said. The alleged Chelff statement also implicated James Gordon, 20, of 915 N. Glddstone-av, another reformatory prisoner, police said. Both Chelff and Jackson are reported by police to have stated that they remained in the car while Gordon and Polley went in the liquor store.

Georgia Ballots Tomorrow; ‘Maine to Have General Election Next Week.

By United Press o Pive states and the Territory of Alaska held primary elections today as a prelude to next Monday's Maine election, time-honored political barometer of presidential elections. Today's primaries appeared without political . significance, though partisan forces may make use of them if the results are right. The primaries: were being held in Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Vermont and South Carolina. Tomorrow, the Georgia primary will provide a new test of New Deal sentiment in the deep South. There Gov. Eugene Talmadge, campaigning as an anti-New Deal Democrat, seeks the senatorial nomination over Richard B. Russell Jr. the incumbent and stanch New Dealer.

Washington voters choose party:

nominees for state and congressional offices from 1000 candidates. In Colorado Republicans and Democrats choose gubernotorial and senatorial candidtes. In Vermont voters nominate Republican and Democratic candidates for Governor, congressman and minor states offices. In South Carolina, Democrafic voters decide between the high,candidates in a recent primary, in a “run-off” primary. In Alaska voters choose nominees for territorial offices and elect a delegate to Congress.

‘STICKER’ TEST CASE IS SET FOR SEPT. 23

Hearing in the case to test the city’s traffic violation ‘sticker” ordinance, appealed from Municipal Court by Andrew Jacobs, attorney, was set for Sept. 23 by Circuit Judge Earl Cox today. Mr. Jacobs was fined $5 by Municipal Judge Charles Karabell more than a month ago. Judge Karabell upheld the constitutionality of the law, overruling, the attorney’s contention that policemen who ‘put “stickers” on parked cars should witness the actual parking to proVide sufficient evidence for convicion

TWO PWA GRANTS MADE TO. INDIANA

Seer g—— aa WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. — Two Indiana grants were on the list of fund allocations announced today by the Public Works Administration. A PWA grant of $18450 was made to the Gary Public Library and $8100 to the Bremen Power Plant in Marshall County. Announcement was made through the office of Senator Frederick VanNuys, who had presented data supporting the request for these grants. They represent 45 per cent of the total amount to be expended.

WARNS THAT RUSSIA IS READY TO FIGHT

(Copyright, 1936, by United Press) MINSK, U. S. S. R., Sept. 8.— Commissar of War Klémenti Voroshilov, inaugurating army maneuvers, today warned enemies both at home and abroad that the Stalin regime. was ready to fight. . At the same time he revealed that Russia has a line of subterranean | defense fortresses along its western border comparable to the famous “Maginot line” of concrete and steel whi¢hi pretects France from a German invasion.

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2 CENTS MORE SLASHED FROM CITY TAX RATE

Council Adopts Budget Over

Protests; Rail Elevation Item Discarded.

TENTATIVE LEVY $1.1612

City Hospital Officials File Letter Complaining of Estimate Cuts.

In a flurry of last-minute moves which reduced the civil city budget 2 cents in addition to preliminary cuts of more than 6 cents, the City Council presented to Indianapolis taxpayers today a schedule for 1937 expenditures which sets the civil

-city tax rate at $1.1612.

A 1-cent levy for South Side track elevation was one of the principal reductions. The rate presented for Marion County Tax Adjustment Board consideration is 1 and a fraction cents higher than the rate last year. The council cut the 1936 budget proposal to $1.15 and later this was reduced to $1.11, the present rate. The session last night terminated two weeks of budget study. In the afternoon session yesterday, departinent heads made final pleas for "restoration of slashes already made. A formal protest against what they termed “drastic cuts” was made by City Hospital officials, headed by Dr. Charles Myers, superintendent, and Earl Wolf, business manager. A letter delivered to councilmen before the meeting pointed out items cut from the hospital budget, which they said pare indispensable to efficient management. “City Hospital employes work long hours under extremely difficult circumstances and we’ feel it our duty to protect them,” the letter said. Claiming that the hospital has been run on a smaller budget than ever before in the face of an in(Turn to Page Three)

GOV. LANDON HOME; FAGES BUSY WEEK

ein Repliblicans to Visit|&

Topeka Friday.

By Uniled Press 3 TOPEKA, Kas.,, Sept. 8—Gov. Alfred M. Landon returned to his heavily laden desk today with prospects -of a busy week climaxed by the meeting here Friday of young

Republicans from all parts of the |

nation, : The: Republican nominee worked late last night on routine business after a speech yesterday to the state convention .of the American Legion at Wichita calling for “inteligont. legislation” to keep America out of war. He warned against intolerance and urged a rapid healing of the split in the ranks of organized labor. : Former President Hoover may visit Mr. Landon late this week io discuss the role he will take in the campaign.

MARKETS AT A GLANCE

By United Press

Stocks higher under lead of sieed shares. Bonds advanced under lead of inUnited States governments mixed. Curb stocks rise fractions to more

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PRICE THREE CENTS

Drought N ced of Farmers in State Sought

The State Planning Board is : to start a survey of Indiana farm families whose crops were destroyed by dry weather, Gov. McNutt announced today. Families found to be without provisions for the winter as result of crop failures are to be listed for jobs on WPA projects, the Governor said. He said the estimate of the corn crop in the state was 112,000,000 bushels as compared to

Warrick and Clark Counties have been designated as the areas in the state most seriously affected by the drought.

SAN SEBASTIAN SIEGE STARTED

Spanish Rebels in Suburbs; Loyalists: at Madrid Mobilize Police.

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(Copyright, 1936, by United Press) GIBRALTAR, Sept. 8.—Advancing rebels entered the suburbs of San Sebastian today. The anarchists set fire to the Trincheppe district, where they had intended to make their last stand. A state of siege was declared in ‘San Bebastian, where the Basque Nationalists rioted against the anarchists. The Spanish government took extraordinary precautions to guard its southern approaches. Mobilizing the Madrid police force as a possible shock troop brigade for the front, the government tacitly expressed its belief that the fighting in the Talavera area southwest of Madrid and west of Toledo was likely to be the biggest action of the civil war. The present front is just east of Talavera. in the area, the government unleashed a terrific bombardment of the Alcazar in which 1200 rebel men, women and children and some loyalists—hostages—have been withstanding siege for several weeks. Jean Herbette, French ambassador to Spain, went to San Sebastian from Hendaye, on the frontier, to try to settle arguments between Basque nationalists .and anarchists in the Loyalist defense force, The Anarchists want td destroy the city rather than let: the rebels get it; the Basques ‘prefer surrender.

BUYS ELSIE'S BED, THEN RETURNS IT

Purchaser - Can’t Bear to Deprive Miss Janis.

By United Press NORTH TARRYTOWN, N. Y, Sept. 8.—The ivory bedroom suite of Elsie Janis, actress and “sweetheart of the A. E. F.,” went on the auction block again today after a New York banker who bought it at the opening of her sale yesterday tried to’ givey it back because he could not “bear the thought of her sleeping on an iron bedstead.” Yves De Villers, a former stage associate of Miss Janis, paid $400 for the eight-piece suite yesterday, but the sale has been cancelled and the money returned, Auctioner R. E. Manley said today. Manley said Miss Janis telephoned De Villers today, thanked him for his gesture, but declined the gift be-

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22-Cent “Increase in Levy Needed, He Contends in Speech.

62,000 BEGIN STUDIES

Business Director Defends ‘Pay-as-You-Go’ Program

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With a public hearing on the 1037 > school city budget scheduled by the Board of School Commissioners toe night, A. B. Good, school business : director, today warned of the danger in delaying erection of what he termed “necessary high school build= ings to relieve serious overcrowds ng.” While delegations headed by civia leaders planned to voice their aps proval of the inclusion of an ap= propriation of $875,000 in the new budget for new high school build« ing projects other groups including Parent Teacher Associations were urging the County Tax Adjustment Board “and such boards as have power of review over the budget to retain the item providing for the building program. Meanwhile 62,000 Indianapalls school children left sand lot baseball games and bicycle trips behind them and marched off to begin a new semester. =

Must Wait Until 1938

Mr. Good, who spoke before the West Michigan Street Business and Professional = Men's Associa pointed out that if the county & state tax boards approve the build« ing fund levy, the buildings can nof be erected and made ready for use until September, 1938. . - The $875,000 specifically set aside for building projects includes funds for the erection of the first unit of an Irvington High School, an addi= tion to George Washington High School and an addition to School 26 to. relieve the overcrowding at Crispus Attucks High School. “Even with the budget app there will be two more years of crowding with the high school ene roliment - sapidly increasing,” Mr,

Good. said. “If the ume is, another year of overcrowding a so on.” id

22-Cent Increase in Levy

Determined to. carry out “their “pay-as-you-go” building the School Board on:Aug. 23 approved the 1937 budget of $7.330,= 642.50, calling for a tax levy of $1.11, This is an increase of 22 cents over the 89-dent rate for this year. The budget also calls for an increase of $1,096,230 over last year. : Mr. Good pointed out that the 1937 levy will ‘be 11 cents. ‘higher

“Even though the 1937 levy will be 11 cents higher,” he said, “props erty taxes to be collected for ‘the public schools next year will be $1,309,000 less than the sum obtained in 1932, and the proposed 1937 budget, including the $975,000 for buildings, is $59,000 less than the 1932 budget,” he said. “Factors other than only the tax levy must be considered in discussing school costs, because the amount of the levy is meaningless otherwise, In 1932 the tax levy for the schools was $1. Now we. are asking for $1.11, and yet in cents this amounts to § 309,000 mg in taxes from property,” he said.

Points to Valuation Slashes

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